Posted on 07/11/2016 8:59:03 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
No need for repairs, just for COMPLIANCE!
How do we know? No one has used it for years.
Not my example but he has made worse errors. Like arguing free trade was against the Founding Fathers when they initiated protection of American industries. That’s a big one that I remember.
Yes they did. Those rogues and scallywags!
Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution.
Everyone knew that a Constitutional Convention was ongoing, all of the States sent delegates.
Once the Constitution was completed it was then submitted to the states for ratification.
Ratification occurred by the necessary number of States and the Constitution was considered ratified on June 21, 1788.
It was not until the Constitution came into force in 1789 that the 13 States began to operate under the framework of the Constitution.
And during that entire time the Articles of Confederation continued to exist.
As for "Like our current constitution, the Articles of Confederation had no mechanism that allowed for it to be replace, only a mechanism for it to be modified." there was most definitely a mechanism for replacement.
It was a mechanism that was foremost in the minds of the Founders, they had just completed it.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And that is exactly what they did, and they did it by the consent of the governed, through radification by a vote of the people.
Now, the question here is does anyone really believe that 2/3rds of the States will vote to ratify a socilist manafesto to replace the existing Constitution?
I don't.
But I would like to see a few things, such as REAL balanced budget amendment which will never happen in the D.C. environment.
Perhaps an amendment that would not alter a single letter, space or punctuation mark of the Second Amendment but as a separate amendment absolutely eradicate and then bar ANY law, rule, statute, policy, practice or regulation that has any effect whatsoever on any American Citizen in any way in regards to the Second Amendment, including any changes to the Second Amendment itself.
And while I'm am on a roll we may as well look into putting the same teeth into the First Amendment since the leftist anti-Americans have convinced themselves the First Amendment is their private one-way street.
Given a little time I just might come up with a few more as well.
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Leave the Constitution alone!
Thank you for those articles! The people who oppose an Article V convention of the states are cowards, plain and simple.
They’d rather live in chains than seek out the unknown risks of liberty. I ask neither their counsel nor their arms and I ask that they go from us and allow us to forget that they were ever Americans. I only hope their chains rest lightly upon them.
And if any of that sounds familiar then it should.
- Megan
Well said.
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